Most of the Grendel uppers have expensive barrels by Walther. Others have fairly expensive barrels by Satern Manufacturing. The expensive barrels probably are a large contributor to consistent 1/2 MOA accuracy among all the Grendels being sold. However, the expensive barrels do result in the cheapest 6.5 Grendel being about $100 more than the cheapest 6.8 SPC.

Basically, because Bill Alexander is the gun version of Steve Jobs. Makes it a huge pain to make stuff in ‘his’ caliber.

I see the big ammo guys tame wildcats all the time. What’s the big deal with the Grendel license? Best guess is that he’s got a design patent. The standard mischief here is to do the “improved” cartridge route. All you need to do is blow the shoulder angle out a bit more and create a new cartridge. Because it’s “improved”, it will chamber and headspace the $1+ Grendel factory fodder just fine, fireforming the brass upon use.

So if I get reamers the reamers made up first, it’s gonna be called the 6.5 Mischief Improved™

Oh, and rumor has it that the 6.5 and 6.8 mags are interchangeable.

So explain to me again why a 6.5 Grendel upper costs an extra $200 to $300?

This goes a long way to make the 6.5 Grendel a Sony Playstation III which is late in the game but running strong rather than a betamax!